The phrase "adjusted for special" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts where adjustments are made for specific conditions or factors, but the phrase needs to be part of a more complete sentence to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The financial report was adjusted for special circumstances that affected the overall performance."
Alternatives: "modified for specific" or "tailored for particular".
Adjusted for special items and one-time gains, earnings fell to 31 cents a share, from 32 cents.
Adjusted for special items in each period, the profit rose to 66 cents a share from 53 cents.
Until the first quarter of 2009, for example, Johnson & Johnson had managed to increase its earnings, adjusted for special items, for 94 consecutive quarters.
Re "Earnings Are Worse Without the Icing" (Market Watch, July 20), which looked at how companies' price-to-earnings ratios might grow if adjusted for special charges, options accounting and pension assumptions: Cendant should not have been included in the chart that projected such adjustments for estimated 2003 P/E ratios.
The rate fell by 3.0% during the second quarter when adjusted for special events such as asset confiscation in Venezuela, Nigerian labor strikes and lower entitlement volumes.
Adjusted for special charges, Goldman earned $2.75 per share a year earlier.
Adjusting for special charges, Sun lost $169 million in the quarter, or 5 cents a share, a penny more than Wall Street had expected.
In September private-sector banks lent more (after adjusting for "special factors") than they had a year before, for the second month in a row.
Adjusting for special education trimmed the funding difference to $1,400 per student, according to estimates by researchers, while additional factors such as family transiency, if fully accounted for, might eliminate the funding disparity entirely or even reverse it.
This is of particular concern because the associations were substantially reduced in analyses that attempted to account for possible bias by adjusting for special education rates excluding autism.
Adjust for special conditions.
